Comparison

Widget Caddy vs Filepad Markdown

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Widget Caddy

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Widget Caddy lets you personalise your home screen with a variety of customisable widgets. Available widget types include: - Clock - Calendar - Facts - Quotes - Photo

About

Filepad Markdown

Features
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Filepad opens the Markdown you already have โ€” in iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, or on this iPhone โ€” and leaves it exactly where it is. Nothing is copied into the app. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. FINDS WHAT IS QUIETLY WRONG HTML tells you when you break it. Markdown does not โ€” it just renders differently, and you never notice. Filepad reads your document the way the renderer does and points at the lines that will not come out the way you meant: a heading with no space after the #, a table row with the wrong number of cells, an unclosed link, a footnote with no definition. One tap fixes what can be fixed by adding text. Nothing is ever deleted to "fix" something. READS PROPERLY Headings, tables, task lists, quotes, code blocks, footnotes, front matter, and [[wiki links]] between documents in the same folder. Jump by heading with the outline, or with the four navigation buttons that sit under your thumb. FINDS THINGS Search inside a document with every hit highlighted, or search a whole folder and see which files hold what you are looking for. Sort by name or by when you last changed something. EDITS AND SAVES CAREFULLY Edit the source with a toolbar for the marks you forget, and a line that tells you what the cursor is sitting on. Saving is atomic, and the previous version is kept beside the file so an edit can be undone. If the file changed outside the app while you were editing, Filepad does not overwrite it โ€” it saves your version alongside and asks you. ALSO OPENS PDF, HTML AND TEXT PDFs and web documents are view-only. HTML is drawn with network access blocked at two independent layers, and when a document tries to reach the internet for an image or a script, Filepad says so on screen instead of quietly fetching it. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account. No sync service of ours. No analytics, no advertising, no tracking. The app makes no network requests at all. Your folders, your files, your device. Free, and staying free.

Screenshots

Widget Caddy3 screens
Filepad Markdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Widget Caddy at 3 against Filepad Markdown's 1. Widget Caddy also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Widget Caddy versus Filepad Markdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWidget CaddyFilepad Markdown
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size14 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperArmchair EngineeringByeongsoo Kang

In-app purchases

None

Widget Caddy

No in-app purchases

None

Filepad Markdown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Widget Caddy free?
Widget Caddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Filepad Markdown free?
Filepad Markdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Widget Caddy or Filepad Markdown have ads?
Neither Widget Caddy nor Filepad Markdown shows ads.

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